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If you or anybody you know wants to learn to read music, it is a lot easier to do than it used to be. The Internet gives us all access to al most unlimited information, and might deliver an incredible array of products and tools right to our desktops. Not surp growing ly, there are some really clever products out there that might advocate you learn to read notes.
“Piano is Fun” from Anthony Fernando is a wonderful beginner package for a wonderfully reasonable price that will inform you how to read music. The knowledge and practice available here would cost a lot of times the purchase price ($24.95) in personal lessons. Included in the price are free lifetime upgrades and a 30 day money -back guarantee.
Purchase and Installation
Purchase and installation are both a snap. The entire process takes no more than five minutes and is virtually foolproof. So, what’s in the product? A series of lessons and practice games that inform you how to read music and make it fun! And that’s quite an accomplishment! Most students find it an awesome, dreadful task, but it really does not have to be, as this product demonstrates. When you start the program, you might think that the product is just for kids. Well, it is wonderful for kids, but it is additionally fun for anybody that wants to learn to read music for the piano. My own bass clef reading skills fade in and out, and I actually enjoyed clicking through the lessons and “games” (review tests).
Getting Started
The standard package features a series of twenty lessons that start wonderfully simply and progress through both the treble and bass clefs. The graphics are large and bright and easy to read. There are good sound and visual effects – enough to keep your interest up but not so much that it distracts from the point of learning the notes. The way to get started with the product is to take the tour, which explains the layout of the lessons and the “games” that are used as review tests for each of the twenty lessons. As a student progresses through each lesson, awards are given and displayed on a separate screen – wonderful little reinforcers to keep you going.
Menu and Options
The primary menu is completely self-explanatory and includes a button for ” Create Here” which leads to the “tour”, a “Lessons” button, which leads to the twenty lessons, an “Options” button (explained below) and buttons for advanced tests called the Bronze, Silver, and Gold C hall enges. The Options button lets you control what happens when a correct answer is entered (there are several varying option s), and contains an option for teachers that allows the addition or deletion of a student’s name. It is additionally possible for a “teacher” to construct “custom” lessons that operate prefer the other lessons. The option is in picking the notes that are presented in the test. So, if you want your child or student to concentrate on recognizing certain notes, you might easily create exercises that contain only those notes. There’s additionally a sound option that lets you turn on or off the sound effects that accompany parts of the program.
Extra C hall enging Exercises
The Bronze, Silver, and Gold C hall enge exercises are more note recognition tests but with the notes passing across the screen at a faster pace, clear ly requiring a quicker response from the user. If a student might master these, there isn’t much doubt that they know their notes.
So that’s about it! This program does not balance your checkbook, manage your portfolio, or vacuum your carpet, but it never claimed to! If you want to learn to read music, or have a child that’s about to start lessons or just shows interest, this product is a wonderful buy. Imagine your piano teacher’s surprise when your 5 year old shows up knowing how to read music on both the treble and bass clefs! She’ll fall off her piano bench! By the way, my son, who has been taking lessons for two years, came home from school yesterday and ASKED if he might use the Piano is Fun program! Think about that!